Research Day 2013 Education Research Matters Thursday May 30th, 2013 | 12:30 to 7:30 p.m. First Nations House of Learning, Sty-Wet-Tan Hall Organized by the Faculty of Education’s Office of Graduate Programs and Research and the Graduate Student Council, in collaboration with the Indigenous Education Institute of Canada, in the context of the Year […]

Registration is now open for: Managing Projects (Offered in partnership with Mitacs Step) Thursday, March 7, 2013 9:00am to 5:00pm For complete session description, please visit: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/7881-gps-workshopmitacs-step-managing-projects To register, please visit: https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2358 Space is still available in this week’s The Essential Intercultural Communication Workshop (Offered in partnership with International House, this case-based interactive workshop for […]

Research Ethics Deadline For more info visit UBC Research Ethics web site at: http://www.research.ubc.ca/ethics/meeting-dates-deadlines-0 March 1 for March 14 meeting March 15 for March 28 meeting March 29 for April 11 meeting April 12 for April 25 meeting April 26 for May 19 meeting May 10 for May 23 meeting May 31 for June 13 […]

I. Work: Provincial Nominee Program Information Session and Leveraging Your International Experience in Building Your Career Are you an international student interested in living and working in Canada permanently after graduation? Government officers from the BC Provincial Nominee Program (BC PNP) will give a presentation about how to apply for Canadian permanent residency through BC […]

Registration is open for the Presentation Skills Workshop March 27, 28, 2013.  Please note that participants must be able to attend the entire 16 hour workshop. This workshop is always in high demand. To register for the Late March PSW, please go to: http://events.ctlt.ubc.ca/events/view/2291

Registration is open for the Instructional Skills Workshop March 23, 24, 25, 2013.  Please note that participants must be able to attend the entire 24 hour workshop. The Instructional Skills Workshop is an internationally recognized program and students receive transcript notation for their participation.  It is a 3-day intensive workshop that develops participant’s teaching skills and confidence.  It is appropriate for first […]

If you are interested in getting your students involved in 3MT or running a heat in your department, please let me know and I will send you an organizer’s package which includes all the information and files you need.  I’m also happy to answer any questions you have. Please forward the below information to your […]

UBC-City of Vancouver Greenest City Scholars – Call for Applications The UBC Sustainability Initiative (USI) is proud to once again sponsor graduate students currently enrolled in Masters or PhD programs at UBC Vancouver to work with the City of Vancouver to advance Vancouver’s greenest city goals. The Greenest City Scholars Program is open to UBC […]

Registration is now open for Discover, Gather, Create, Share – Graduate Research In A Day at the UBC Library Research Commons in Koerner Library. Date: Tuesday, February 19 Location: Koerner Library Kick off Reading Week with a series of workshops designed to help you with all stages of the graduate student research process from doing […]

Three Minute Thesis Competition.  To register to present or become an event volunteer, contact your heat organizer or graduate.pathways@ubc.ca.  For complete event info, please visit http://3mt.grad.ubc.ca/.  If programs or departments would like to know more about 3MT I am happy to come and meet with you to discuss the program.  If you are student whose […]

For more information on any of the items below or copies of previous NewsFlashes, please e-mail: educ.ogpr@ubc.ca, or call: 604-822-5512, Fax: 604-822-8971. For UBC-wide events, please visit Live @ UBC: http://www.liveat.ubc.ca/ Research Ethics Deadline For more info visit UBC Research Ethics web site at: http://www.research.ubc.ca/ethics/meeting-dates-deadlines-0 February 1 for February 14 meeting February 15 for February […]

Registration is open for the Instructional Skills Workshop early March 9, 10, 16, 2013.  Please note that participants must be able to attend the entire 24 hour workshop. The Instructional Skills Workshop is an internationally recognized program and students receive transcript notation for their participation.  It is a 3-day intensive workshop that develops participant’s teaching skills and confidence.  It is appropriate for […]

FIREtalks: Care and Healing Can we only heal individuals or is possible to heal entire cultures? Are scientific and holistic approaches to care and healing necessarily mutually exclusive? Is preventive always better than restorative care? As graduate students, many of us are involved in research concerning care and healing, and we can think about these […]

There are three levels of the scholarships – from the Chinese government, from the Chongqing government and from the President of our university. Please give this information to your students who are interested in studying in China, maybe this will be helpful to them. Graduate students program of Southwest University Mayor scholarship application Southwest university […]

Investigating Our Practices 2013 16th Annual Conference Saturday, May 11, 2013, 8:30am – 1:30pm Neville Scarfe Building, UBC Please join us for IOP 2013, co-sponsored by the Faculty of Education and the BC Teachers’ Federation.  Practicing teachers, graduate students, undergraduate students, and university educators from different educational contexts will convene in the Scarfe Building to share […]